SNAP

Tom Colicchio went back to CNN to discuss his crusade against childhood hunger — a crusade that just became more difficult with the draconian cuts made to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

We’re not just saying this because we’re MasterChef Junior deprived — let’s team Sam Kass up with Gordon Ramsay and the MasterChef Junior judges to design this “Home Ec of the next generation” and show kids that cooking can be awesome. Best idea ever, right? (We’ll be waiting here patiently for our royalty checks, kthx.)

Sam Kass took the GOP to task yesterday for cutting roughly $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which, if passed, would essentially gut the food stamp program over the next ten years.